Summer is typically a slower time and a great time to give back before things get busy in the Fall. Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC) can help you find something that’s meaningful, interesting and matches your skills. Our website lists all the opportunities in the area where you can help nonprofits so take a few minutes today and find your match! Here are a couple opportunities available but there are many more on our website:
Barrington Children’s Charities
Barrington Children’s Choir offers the finest concepts in music learning and choral performance. Children are taught diverse and extensive American and multicultural repertoire, including folk, classical, renaissance and music in native languages. The students perform locally in our community as well!
BCC is looking for a Director of Financial Development as well as a Director of Marketing so if any of your skills align with either of these volunteer opportunity, please click here to learn more.
BACOA – Help with Games!
Barrington Area Council on Aging is looking for volunteers to help BACOA’s Program Manager with their weekly Bingo and Lunch activities on Mondays from 10AM-1PM.
If you like to play games, this is a fun and engaging opportunity! (Lunch will be included for the volunteers). There are several other BACOA volunteer opportunities. Find details by clicking here.
HAHS Volunteer
Hooved Animal Humane Society (HAHS) mission is to provide humane treatment of hooved animals by acting as an advocate through education, legislation, and physical rehabilitation to animals that have endured severe neglect and abuse and adopt them out to loving forever homes.
HAHS looking for volunteers to help with care of the horses. Whether you want to learn more about animals, meet others like yourself, reduce stress with physical activity, or make a difference in the life of an animal, click here to check out how you can help at HAHS!
To learn more about how you can register as a BAVC nonprofit or volunteer, please visit thebavc.org.
More About the Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC)
Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC)‘s goal is to bring all 100+ Barrington area nonprofits, churches and service organizations in a free & easy to use database so that volunteers can easily find opportunities. The foundation of BAVC is a volunteer match platform called Get Connected which serves as a clearinghouse to bring together organizations, volunteers, and collaborators to match volunteer interests with nonprofits needing assistance. GetConnected also offers organizations optional features such as easy record keeping of volunteer hours, as well as mobile check in and shift reminders and other ways to communicate with volunteers. Learn more at TheBAVC.org. Please also visit BAVC’s Facebook & Instagram pages! * BAVC Photos by Bob Lee
